Cruz Vows to Speak Until ‘No Longer Able to Stand’

Sep 24, 2013 3:38 pm ET

Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) took his drive to cripple President Barack Obama’s health-care law to the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon, vowing to talk against the law into the night, until he is “no longer able to stand.”

It was a talk-a-thon that was supposed to look like a “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” style filibuster, reflecting the conservative’s fierce opposition to the president’s signature legislative accomplishment.